jpdb beta

unforeseen; unexpected; sudden; accidental

2

accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons

4

for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)

4

popular name; common name; nickname; alias

2

bitter enemies in the same boat; rivals finding themselves together by chance

4

of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing

3

to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy

7

as (somebody) says

1

to be born; to come into this world

3

to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)

1

substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange

1

to have an idea; to have a clue

1

all; everything

3

political

4

to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on

1

related (by blood); blood-related; of the same blood

1

ready wit; quick wits; resourcefulness; raising (money)

2

to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect

1

to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of

2

to be reliable

1

to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task

1

companion; follower; attendant; retinue

3

to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)

1

to look forward to something

1

main thread (of a story)

1

second generation; second; junior

13

to obtain; to procure

10

trying to think of a way (to); devising means (to); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing

3

to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate

6

shades of evening; dead of night

3

to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

5

transport; transportation

2

on the way; en route; in the process of (development, construction, etc.); in the middle of

1

true value; real worth

1

Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry

1

sandbank (in a river); sandbar

1

empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless

1

shipwreck

1

before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand

9

scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick

1

to come to nothing; to go down the drain; to go up in smoke

1

like this; in this way; as you see

1

to be able to manage somehow or another

3

beginning; outset; first; onset

1

able; capable; competent; talented; efficient

1

cooperation; collaboration

1

(some) more; even more; longer; further

6

easy; simple; plain

1

both feet; both legs

1

plop; splash

2